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Pattern Design Epiphany

I need about 4 yards of the background fabric, 1 yard of the teal and 1 yard of the red to make my latest pattern. It's currently free on Craftsy as it hasn't been pattern tested due to my injured foot.

I designed these two blocks a couple of years ago then last week I had a pattern design epiphany!

So I immediately got into reworking the layout in EQ7 and created a draft pattern, the pattern uses the red and teal seen above. But as you can see in these next two layouts it looks good in a more scrappy quilt layout too!

I have made my dogs some dog jackets lately and was asked for the pattern, since all dogs are different sizes that is difficult to do, but I am going to do a tutorial showing how I did it.

This is the pattern for my medium sized dog Henry the Cockapoo, I have laid it on my cutting mat folded in half and lined up with the inch marks so that you can copy the pattern onto a grid if you would like to try this:

And this is the pattern for my small Maltipoo Ebony again it is folded in half and lined up on the inch grid so you can copy it if you would like to:

Once you have created a paper pattern you can lay it over your dog to determine if you need to enlarge the pattern or decrease the size to suit your own dog.
Then you need a piece of fabric and some batting. Any scrappy patchwork or UFO you no longer want will do fine for this or you can take the time to create a patchwork design that suits your dogs personality. Spray baste the top to the battingLay the pattern on top and cut out the p…